Everybody knows about Christmas horror (BLACK CHRISTMAS, CHRISTMAS EVIL, the SILENT/DEADY NIGHT saga, etc.). And of course there’s Christmas action (DIE HARDs 1-2, the works of Shane Black). But did you ever notice there’s Christmas crime, too? I just reviewed SILENT PARTNER, and there’s THE ICE HARVEST, BAD SANTA and others. So I was using the Google.com websight to see if there were others and came across this interview with a guy who did a book just about Christmas movies. He chose this CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY as a movie he wishes were on DVD and that more people knew about.
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Christmas Holiday
Friday, December 24th, 2010Tags: Christmas, Christmas crime, Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Herman J. Mankiewicz, noir, Robert Siodmak, W. Somerset Maugham
Posted in Crime, Reviews, Romance | 11 Comments »
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